I'll get you airborne. Landing alive, guaranteed!
Real problems don't wait their turn, and I'm done being scared of them. Crash, adjust, roll again. I call it the Wheelchair Way. WTLab is where I keep the tools: will the stock hold, will the arrivals pile up, what's been sitting too long. Paste your data, get a call on the spot.
The Wheelchair Way
Not a methodology. A habit I picked up by crashing.
Huh?
01 · Real problems
A real problem shows up. It rarely knocks, and it never checks your calendar.
Wait, what?
02 · Room for error
Wrong math, wrong read, wrong guess: budget for all three. And if you don't get it, say so.
Oh, come ON!
03 · Resilience
Crashed. Swearing is allowed. Staying down isn't. Wheels still there? Then so am I.
OK. Again.
04 · Keep adjusting
Tilt the angle, keep rolling. If the next crash looks better, that counts as progress.
Main course · brand content
Everyday stories in plain talk. The crashes at work and the stuck bits of life are funnier in panels, and easier to get. (Drawn in Traditional Chinese.)
Read the comic and still wondering why?
The blog says it plainly ↓↓ It gets serious from here. Wheelchair Bro, please keep it down.
The tools · WTLab
Each tool answers one concrete question — 'which month do the arrivals pile up?', 'will this batch last until the next container?'. Each opens with sample numbers already worked through, so you see what it tells you before you swap in your own data. Everything below works today.
One place to see each tool's current working data. Here's the honest state of it:
Projects
Beyond WTLab there are a few other projects in progress. Most are described here without a way in; where there is a public demo, it is linked.
Live
A platform of operational decision tools. Everyday calls about inventory, arrivals and suppliers, broken into small tools you can just use.
Internal use
An organisation's decision memory. What was decided, on what evidence — so the same mistake does not have to be made twice.
Live · internal only
Demo “Asset Stocktake” · fictional data · no sign-in
A multi-person stocktake tool for warehouses, shops and item management. Several people count each bin, and it is settled once their records agree; item totals are checked against the ERP book figures before a person confirms the count is done; putaway order is recorded as a first-in, first-out reference. Works without signing in.
In development
Turns the paperwork and notices of everyday life into events you can follow. Snap a photo or paste some text; it becomes calendar entries and reminders.
Plain-talk essays
Whatever the comics can't fit, the blog says plainly. One essay per comic: look first then read, or read first then look. (The essays are in Traditional Chinese; titles below are translated.)